Brown and White Vol. 39 no. 7

              eta sigma phi honorary clas sical fraternity will initiate sev en students next wednesday eve ning at the hotel butztown the men to be initiated are monroe lewis joseph straw bridge sam solomon ernest ritter william bohnigy louis feit and thomas burke after the«initiation a banquet will take place the following will be present natt m emery vice president of the university dr h w wright mr henry crum and dr e l crum alpha kappa psi honorary business fraternity chose the folowing ten new men at a meeting last friday evening earl mahary 32 william b warren 33 richard s hess 33 edward h robb 33 james h fountain 33 philip rauch 33 alexander d robb jr 33 william krouse 33 frank a koyler 33 and george w ely 32 the new men will be formally pledged in chapel tomorrow morning dean curtis will wel come the pledgees with a short talk laboratory gets 10,000 ice plant previous football games be tween lehigh and perm state were played from 1914 to 1921 inclusive the series was tied at the end of the eight years the last game at bethlehem was in 1920 perm state scoring in the closing minutes to tie the brown and white 7-7 the fol lowing year lehigh lost 28-7 explains merits of transformer radio society plans station lightning - proof device described by h c putman two faculty men to aid group in reorganiza tion move the forceful overthrow of the united states government and the elimination of existing constitution al forms and foundations is the avowed purpose of the russian government today so declares wil liam h grady 06 in an article en titled communistic russia in the august number of the"mining con gress journal to substantiate his views mr grady cites the pravda the offi cial soviet organ this paper puts the purpose of the five year plan as world communism our fighting preparations are for world revolution for the con quest of power on a world wide scale ..." again this pa per declares that t he five year plan is an important part of the offensive of the proletariat of the world against capitalism mr grady a coal mining special ist was one of a commission of 15 engineers which sailed for russia in january 1930 he declares that when he went to russia he was in terested only from an engineer's point of view he thought little about communism and what opin ions he held were favorable but before he was in russia long he wished that he were home his re turn to the united states last may was caused by the dismissal of his wife from russia by soviet author ities soap ctet 20 a cake as some of the problems and pri vations which must be faced he russia plans to overthrow u s w h grady 06 says in article cites the experience of a fellow en gineer this friend could not buy soap in russia so he telegraphed to berlin for two cakes of soap the duty on the soap made the cost 20 per cake yet mr grady points out that russia is exporting shiploads of soap to wales where it enters duty free labor turnover high labor is extremely unskilled and industrial discipline has broken down in some industries the labor turnover in one month frequently amounts to 100 per cent railroad stations at moscow and lenigrad are constantly filled with " peasant workers hoping to escape from the tasks the communists have imposed upon them climate is severe va rying between 90 degrees below zero to 120 above the official tempera ture for houses in the winter time is 45 degree where the american home averages about 72 degrees when the people protest and ask for more coal they are promptly exe cuted or imprisoned that communist propoganda is working its way into america mr grady is certain he cites instruc tions which were sent from mos cow to communist agents in this country urging that agitators and propogandists be sent to strike areas inducing striking miners to the point of armed insurrection even greater dangers lies mr grady thinks in the school teach ers college professors editors and continued on page four bridge failure to be discussed brown and white picks delegates e n rockwell lafayette professor will address c.e society thurs harrison and riviere to represent paper at i n a convention the lehigh university radio so ciety held a reorganization meeting at 4 o'clock this afternoon in the reading room packard laboratory the society plans to arrange sche dules with radio societies of other universities in order to get new ideas in regards to the operation of a proposed local radio station the society formerly had its of fice in the physics building at that time the society operated a short wave length radio station w3aeq since the fire in the physics building over a year ago the society has been inactive two members of the faculty c i knutson instructor in electrical engineering and e c easton graduate assistant in electrical en gineering have volunteered to aid the society the electrical engineering de partment has offered the society a place in packard laboratory masts have been built to facilitate the en tire rebuilding of the old transmit ting apparatus and sufficient power is available for the operation of a powerful broadcasting station membership in the radio society is not restricted to electrical engin eering students anyone interested in radio work is eligible to join lettermen favor plan despite rumors to the contrary no definite action has been taken on the matter of a uniform l award statements from the board of con trol of athletics disclosed yester day however undergraduate mem bers of the board are now deter mining whether student opinion has crystallized since the matter was dropped by arcadia last spring the student members will present their findings at the january meet ing of the board and definite action will be taken at that time unless the suggestion is passed in january it may be four or five years before it is again discussed j g petrikin graduate manager of athletics declared we believe the alumni and fac ulty to be generally in favor of the proposed abolishment of distinction between major and minor letters but we realize that student opin ion after all is the most important factor heretofore student apathy has prevented us from accurately determining their perference but we hope to do so before the jan uary meeting a uniform l for all athletic awards has been suggested re peatedly by alumni during the past five years according to mr petri kin when referred to arcadia last year the question was tabled with out action however a vote of all major l wearers showed them to be decidedly in favor of abol ishing the distinction between sports this vote came so late in the year that no action could be taken there is no particular hurry necessary this year in making a de cision mr petrikin stated even if passed it would be impossible to put the change into effect until next year so that our decision in jan uary will be in plenty of time another suggestion which has been received according to mr petrikin is the awarding of a dis tinctive sweater to team captains for example a brown sweater with a white l would be awarded to captains and all other lettermen would receive a white sweater with a brown l new refrigerator is prod uct of the york mach inery corporation the new 10,000 refrigerating unit of the packard laboratory received its preliminary tests last friday and is to receive its final acceptance tests today this plant is one of the principal units of equipment in the laboratory the machine is a pro duct of the york ice machinery corporation the installation consists of two compressors with a capacity for five tons of refrigeration each that is each machine can produce five tons of ice in 24 hours the com pressors condense carbon dioxide and ammonia gases which are sent to the coils of the cold box this box is made up of a vestibule and the cold box proper both of which are insulated by cork in the cold box whose capacity is i,ooß'cubic feet the temperature can be maintained at 50 degrees be low zero fahrenheit for an inde finite interval of time in the imme diate future this low temperature will be used for tests on the freez ing of concrete and the quick freez ing of foods prof m c stuart acting head of the department of mechanical engineering stated that the refrigerator can be used for all work necessitating low tempera tures and that the plant is available to all departments for the execution of their research work he further stated that he hopes other depart ments will use the machine iron arc welds tested in lab union collects used clothing book by harris now published donations will be distributed among bethlehem's needy treats with factors other than intelligence in stu dent grades research fellows investigate high current carrying electrodes prof edward n rockwell head of the civil engineering department at lafayette will speak on the classic engineering failure in an open lecture at 8 p m thursday in packard auditorium the lecture will deal with the failure of the quebec bridge and the ethics of professional engineer ing professor rockwell was graduat ed from worcester polytechnic in stitute in 1890 and has been asso ciated with tufts college rutgers university and lafayette college as well as having had practical exper ience with ten firms on over 20 ma jor construction jobs he is a mem ber of phi beta kappa sigma xi lambda chi american society of chemical engineers american as sociation of engineers and four other promient engineering associa tions the lecture is sponsored by the civil engineering society refresh ments will be served afterwards trafford addresses 50 lehigh students speaks at presbyterian church nativity also entertains superintendent of police fred t trafford former secretary of the lehigh union spoke to a group of 50 freshmen at a reception in the first presbyterian church north side friday evening he gave his definition of what is a man after the formal reception refresh ments were served during the so cial hour the episcopal church of the na tivity also was host friday evening to a large number of lehigh stu dents at a dance in the parish house men and women students from the surrounding colleges were also pre sent the dances will be continued regularly every friday evening the advantages of the new light ning - proof transformer recently developed by the westinghouse electric and manufacturing com pany were enumerated in detail by h c putnam manager of the westinghouse transformer engin eering department at the regular monthly meeting of the american institute of electrical engineers approximately 100 members con vened in the main dining room of hotel altamont in hazleton according to mr putnam it is practically impossible to damage the transformer by lightning pro vided it is properly installed and coordinated with the transmission line the feature of the design is to eliminate surface leakage in the insulation and provide for a uniform distribution of surge voltage throughout the windings other types of transformers had a great deal of surface leakage as a result of which the insulation was destroy ed when lightning struck it mr putnam concluded his talk by describing to the society various tests which the westinghouse com pany had performed on this new type of transformer for the con solidated light and power com pany of baltimore md in its experimental shops located at sha ron pa describes tests the tests were conducted on the transformer by means of an arti ficial lightning generator capable of delivering 2,500,000 volts a bolt of lightning varies in intensity from 10 to 15 million volts but by the time that it reaches the trans former it is greatly reduced should it strike the transformer directly which is seldom the case it would do serious damage this artificial lightning generator simulates nat ural lightning as is indicated by means of a oscillagraph officers in the society for the coming year include the following morland king lafayette chairman n s hibshman lehigh vice chairman and s s seyfert lehigh chairman of meetings and letters - the lehigh men at the meeting included profs n s hibshman and a r miller and electrical en gineering students < f l under wood j j grinevich c w banks g m kelada and a ayers hoover winner in 1929 dr michael i pupin of columbia university is winner for 1932 of the john fritz gold medal considered highest of american engineering honors and named for a former le high trustee and donor of the fritz engineering laboratory announce ment of the award which was una nimous on the part of the commit tee was made last saturday the gold medal was given to dr pupin who is professor of electro mechanics and director of the phoe nix research laboratory at colum bia for his achievements as scien tist engineer author inventor of the tuning of oscillating circuits and the loading of telephone cir cuits by inductance coils herbert hoover president of the united states won the john fritz medal in 1929 for his work in re lief of war-stricken people was steel pioneer john fritz for whom the medal is named was a resident of beth lehem he is known by many as the father of the steel industry in the united states he was associated with andrew carnegie in the found ing of the united states steel cor poration mr fritz who died in 1913 was a member of the original board of trustees of lehigh he served the university in this capacity for a to tal of 35 years from 1866 to 1895 and again from 1907 until his death in 1913 he donated funds to the univer sity in 1910 for the erection of what is known as the fritz engineering laboratory a building which was erected under the personal super vision of mr fritz the laboratory is equipped with a general testing section for iron and steel a cement and concrete section and a hydrau lic section four societies make award the gold medal award was estab lished as a memorial to mr fritz four national societies unite an nually in appointing a board to se lect the winner of the medal the cooperating organizations are am erican society of civil engineers american institute of mining and metallurgical engineers american society of mechanical engineers and american institute of electri cal engineers dr pupin who lists among his numerous degrees the honorary doc tor of laws from muhlenberg col lege is a graduate of university of berlin and columbia university previous recipients of the john fritz gold medal have included herbert hoover admiral david watson taylor u s n retired ralph modjeski john j carty john f stevens ambrose swasey guglielmo marconi sir robert hadfield charles r e schneider orville wright gen george w goethals thomas a edison alex ander graham bell george west inghouse and lord kelvin gallery shows art pictures woman's club hears brown feudal society in medieval italy was history pro fessor's topic photographers of sculpture on exhibition in library for week burt h riviere 33 and clifford e harrison 33 have been elected by the executive committee of the brown and white to represent this paper at the intercollegiate news paper association convention to be held nov 6 and 7 at dickinson college carlisle pa riviere na tional advertising manager of brown and white is to represent the business staff while harrison who is on the editorial council will represent the editorial staff last spring the i n a conven tion was held at the brooklyn polytechnic institute brooklyn where the brown and white was represented by seven delegates in this contest the brown and white won second place in the editorial competition making it the fifth successive prize in the semi-annual news and editorial competition of the i n a this record is believed to be unequalled by any member of the i n a laughton to address chem society oct 27 manufacture of ry ice will be alumnus speech the first meeting of the chemical society will be held at 7:30 p m thursday oct 27 in the chemical lecture room william miller laughton 23 will speak on the manufacture of dry ice mr laughton who was formerly employed by the foamite childs corporation is now connect ed with the dry ice corporation of america he will discuss the man ufacture and problems of the indus try and will illustrate his lecture with slides and samples after the business meeting at which the committees for the com ing year will be elected a social gathering will take place the lehigh union acting through a committee composed of george riley 32 chairman john angle 32 james r wilson 33 charles marks jr 32 and william o roth 32 is to carry out a cam paign for the collection of old clothes from students for distribu tion among the needy families of bethlehem although most of the clothes will be collected before next thursday the campaign will continue throughout the winter the fraternity houses have been divided into groups a member of the committee covering each group when the clothes have been collect ed part will be distributed directly by the union to needy persons who have applied for them and part will go to the salvation army and other charitable institutions for distribu tion by the field workers of those organizations ted blood to open tea room this week well known students will assist varsity quarterback ted blood arts 32 varsity quar terback and former captain of the swimming team plans to open a tea room corner of new street and packer avenue sometime during the current week the personnel of the staff of the tea room includes many well known students such as ben bish op andrew mccandless and al vin letowt frank shaw intercolle giate wrestling champ will be a waiter dcx bullard 30 will be blood's partner and business man ager of the shop the tea room will be a jigger shop there will be two floors the lower floor will include the main dining room where a la carte spe cials may be had as well as sand wiches and coffee the upper floor will be reserved forjtudents to meet and talk over a cup of coffee players approve plan first football game with state college since 1 92 1 resuming grid relations after ten years lehigh and perm state will meet in a post-season game for charity nov 28 in philadel phia the university of pennsylvania has donated the use of franklin field for the contest decision to play a post-season game was made by the players themselves last thursday and perm state was selected as the op ponent late yesterday president richards feeling that the players should not be required to give up their thanksgiving va cation unless they so desired in sisted on the team's approval before allowing the game to be scheduled shortly after walter okeson had outlined the plan on thursday the players went into a huddle and un animously voted in its favor will aid relief plan post-season charity games have been suggested as means of secur ing funds for unemployment relief by owen d young chairman of president hoover's relief commis sion numerous other colleges have or are making arrangements to play games similar to the le high-penn state contest mr okeson said that arrange ments to play perm state are com pleted and that president gates of the university of pennsylvania had offered franklin field to president richards free of charge this offer will doubtless be accepted mr okeson went on to say the min or details are not yet completed owing to the short notice but the game will probably be popularly priced with the majority of the seats unreserved to be sold for about 1.00 the proceeds of the game will be split two ways half going tp the president of each insti tution to be donated as he sees fit lehigh's portion of the proceeds will probably go to the unemploy ed in bethlehem this quick decision of the lehigh players means that the students on the team must forego their thanks giving vacation the team will be forced to remain at the college and keep training tate satisfied with game coach austie tate when inter viewed last evening made the fol lowing statement i'm very much pleased that lehigh is to play perm state at the post-season game because the athletic policy in force at peun state is exactly the same as at lehigh and the match is very fair the lehigh perm state games in the past were bitterly fought battles and both teams fought to the last minute it was not uncom mon for the losing team to leave the field crying the sportsmanship of the perm state men was always of the best and it is going to be a good battle when asked wheth er he thought lehigh would win he replied that although the team is showing gradual improvement they must do better than they have done in past games to bring victory to lehigh although lehigh and perm state have not played foot ball in a number of years they have been opponents in other athletic contests president richards declared that he had nothing to say but he re marked that i am pleased and proud to see my boys respond so quickly and so unanimously in such an emergency faculty dramatists to read field god the field god by paul green will be read by the faculty dra matic club tomorrow evening at the home of prof and mrs j l graham 37 e church street due to the absence of president mrs p m palmer prof a w klein will take charge of the meeting at the opening meeting the mem bers of the club read the gay lord quex by arthur pinero decorations chosen watson e current e m 32 chairman of the senior prom com mittee announced today that zol linger & harned will decorate tay lor gymnasium for the senior prom the decorations will follow the au tumnal colors in an effort to make the walls of the gym resemble a natural setting mr current said that the final arrangements togeth er with the nature of favors and refreshments will be made public next tuesday investigation of the iron arc and its possible use in electrical weld ing a project which has not been undertaken is being carried on in packard laboratory according to a member of the electrical engineer ing department previously the highest current for any arc has been only 30 amperes higher currents than this burning the electrodes away too quickly to make their use practical e c eas ton james ward packard research fellow in electrical engineering and f b lucas henry marison bylessby research fellow are now able to pass a current of 200 am peres between iron arcs without burning them away momentary shots of current make this possible this experiment is being carried on at the request of the american institute of electrical engineers which has asked the electrical en gineering department to investigate as thoroughly as possible the tran sient phenomena in welding genera tion at the present time the graduate students of the department outnum ber the seniors taking the electrical engineering course there being only 12 seniors compared to 18 gradu ate students in the department sydney m brown professor of european history spoke on feu dal society in medieval italy at the meeting of the faculty wom an's club this afternoon many members of the faculty attended professor brown's address was the first of a series of eight lectures on social and economic conditions in italy to be given before the club this winter some of the ten tative subjects will deal with mus solini italian art italian music and the pope daniel h harris m a an in structor in the department of psy chology has written a book en titled the relation to college grades of some factors other than intelligence which has re cently been released for sale the book is the first comprehen sive review of literature in its field and follows an exhaustive analysis of non intelligence factors in grades in a large and homogeneous student population the reliability of differ ences between groups as indicated in past and present findings are evaluated so as to make possible fairly definite conclusions regarding many moot questions in addition a number of entirely new relationships are tentatively uncovered this study should be of interest to everyone in the field of college education it will be inval uable to deans and workers in stu dent personnel titles of some of the chapters will give an excellent idea as to the manner in which the subject is treated age sex race outside work study habits fraternities oc cupation choice personality and family background are some of the titles tryouts announced for dange orchestra glee club rehearsal changed to wednesday evening tryouts for the university dance orchestra will be at 7:30 o'clock tomorrow evening in drown hall according to ben d witemeyer manager of the combined musical clubs the followinglevening at the same place and time the glee club will rehearse » about 60 men have been selected as members of the glee club and several others will report for fur ther tryouts no definite plans have been made yet as to the trip itin erary of the glee club the club will not travel until spring coming events sophomore council punishes four frosh three sets of details of scrulptu ral works secured from prof clar ence kennedy of smith college will be placed on exhibition tomorrow in the art gallery the first set the treasury of the siphnians at delphi which dates from the archaic period of ancient greece contains 64 photographs of these sculptural decorations these photographs were made by profes sor kennedy with the assistance of the american school at athens the other two series are of works of the italian renaissance by de siderio da settignano these pho tographs were taken in florence turin and the ' museum of the louvre the exhibition will be at lehigh for one week only oct 21 to 28 it will be open week days from 3 to 6 p m and on sunday oct 25 from 2 to 5 p m on wednesday oct 28 professor kennedy will be at the gallery at 10 a m for a dis cussions of his work smiths hosts at tea prof and mrs r m smith held a tea for members of the english department from 4 to 6 p m last sunday mrs c r richards mrs m j luch and mrs p m palm er poured tea wednesday oct 21 7:30 p m meeting of the mining and geological society geology lecture room williams hall 7:30 p m meeting of tau beta pi engineering society room pack ard laboratory thursday oct 22 8:00 p m meeting of the civil engineering society packard auditorium prof e h rockwell of lafayette college will speak on the classic % engineering failure october 21-28 exhibition of photographs of sculp tural details ancient and modern by prof clarence kennedy of smith college lehigh art gal lery lehigh library open from 3 to 6 p m weekdays and from 2 to 5 p m on sunday oct 25 the sophomore council pun ished four freshmen for violation of different regulations last thursday evening in drown hall the answer to be made to cri ticisms directed at the council by upperclassment was discussed but no action was taken some criticisms held that enforcement of the freshman rules is childish while others criticize the council for laxity in dealing with the new men the next meeting of the coun cil will be at 7:30 p m thurs day in drown hall tempted to follow the indian appe lation for the river however in dian words were very difficult for anyone not accustomed to them to pronounce so the moravians short ened the name to lecha this word is still prevalent in the con versation of the pennsylvania dutch english change to lehigh when english speaking inhabi tants arrived in this district the name lecha had no greater ap peal to them than the longer indian name lechauwekink had to the early moravians the english set tlers adopted the smoother word lehigh this name in its present form is unfortunately a corruption or an abbreviation of the original indian name and conveys no spe cial meaning asa packer one of the richest men of jiis time who made his for tune on the lehigh canal and the lehigh valley railroad favored the adoption of this name when he ap propriated money for the founding of a university in the lehigh val ley lehigh is from indian name a corruption of lechauwekink does the name lechauwekink ' mean anything to you or does the pennsylvania dutch expression lecha signify anything further perhaps not but both have a direct bearing on the derivation of the word lehigh lehigh was first adopted by english speaking settlers who pre ferred this to the moravian expres sion lecha which had been adopted earlier in preference to lechauwekink used by the del aware indian tribe years ago even before the found ing of bethlehem dec 24 1741 by moravian settlers delaware in dians in their journey through their country were forced to cross the river now known as the lehigh from the river bank many trails forked to the north and west and so the delawares called the river lechauwekink meaning where there are forks moravians shorten name the early moravian settlers whose remarkable missionary work among the indians led to great friendship between the races at brown and white bethlehem pa tuesday october 20 1931 classical society to initiate seven price — five cents engineers award michael i pupin 1932 fritz prize alpha kappa p si elects new men vol xxxix no 7 board of control takes no action on uniform l lehigh to play charity game with penn state memorial to former trus tee is highest techni cal award definite conclusion will be reached at jan uary meeting perm donates franklin field for post-season contest nov 28 lehigh-state series tied after 8 games all the lehigh news first member intercollegiate newspafer ' association